Vice-Chancellor of KNUST; Prof. Rita Akosua Dickson Pays Courtesy Call on 101 year old Dr. E Evans-Anfom (2nd Vice Chancellor of KNUST).

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Dr. Evans-Anfom and Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson
Professor (Mrs). Rita Akosua Dickson, Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has paid a courtesy call on the 101 year old 2nd Vice-Chancellor of the university at his residence in Osu.
The Professor thanked Dr.Evans-Anform for his role in nurturing a great University and informed him that KNUST is now the best University in west Africa, Ghana and the 14th best University in Africa. Dr. Evans-Anfom was full of praise for the Management of the University. He said it is prayer that the University will continue to go higher and higher in all spheres. Citations were also presented to Dr. Evans-Anform from the Medical and Dental Council of Ghana and Osu Salem Old Boys Association (OSBA) to honour his services.
Dr. Evans-Anfom and Professor (Mrs.) Rita Akosua Dickson 
Dr. Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, who is a centenarian, an educationist, a surgeon, statesman and sportsman has been touted as one of the resilient personalities by the current Vice-Chancellor of KNUST with his tremendous services to the not just the university but the country as a whole. The former Vice-Chancellor who had had various stakes on national duties and roles has worked almost in all the regions of Ghana with the exception of the volta region, he toasted the 4th cuop while on his duty to the Northern Region where he was detained briefly.
He was afterwards appointed as the commissioner of education and later commissioner of health. He also held other high offices such as Member of Council of State during the administration of Dr. Hilla Liman, he served as the Chairman of the Board of the Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine at Akuapem-Mampong. He was as well a hockey sportsman in his days of Achimota College and Edinburgh, and later. Dr. Evans Anform was once the president of the Ghana Medical Association and President of West Africa College of Surgeons and have persevered against all odds in very challenging times to achieve many first in the field of medicine, tertiary education, sports, nation building and in his Christian belief.

Story by Dachaga Batiey Roger/ KNUSTTigerEye

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